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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kevin E G Perry

Colin Firth’s Lockerbie series slammed as ‘tragedy porn’ by victims of Pan Am disaster

The television drama Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, which stars Colin Firth as a grieving father, has been criticized by the real-life victims of the 1988 bombing as “tragedy porn.”

The Sky and Peacock series is a dramatization of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and its aftermath. The flight, which was travelling from London Heathrow to New York JFK, exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing at least 270 people, including 11 on the ground.

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